Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PERHAPS, by CHRISTIE LUND COLES


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PERHAPS, by                    
First Line: Perhaps we'll meet someday, in some far year
Last Line: The other's sudden sense of loneliness.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


Perhaps we'll meet someday, in some far year
And hardly recognize each other's face;
Perhaps we'll grope a moment as we near
Endeavoring to recollect the place
Our ways once crossed; and then, remembering,
We'll smile and let our hands reach out to touch
As strangers might. So small, so brief a thing
One would not think that once it meant so much.

I'll think perhaps, "I'm glad he went away,"
And you'll think, "She has aged," and be glad too.
Then we will find there's nothing much to say
Beyond the things we've said, much less to do
So we will part again and neither guess
The other's sudden sense of loneliness.





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